Guest guest Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Another Q.: Gandhi spoke of the foolishness of consistency. The consistency is always present within. If I try to look outside for it, there is unsteadiness, and I cannot find a foundation for any kind of consistency. I think that this is that to which he was alluding. It is looking for it in a dream. N.: To look for consistency, or permanence, in a world that is changeful by its very nature, is an impossible task. That which is absolutely steady and perfectly consistent is your own nature. Nothing else is your own nature. When there is repetition of mental tendencies, delusive conception in which, just because one has thought something previously, one goes on thinking the same way, is foolishness. Consider what you regard in the context of " I know. " Thus you will determine what you really know and what is merely repetition, the thinking that you know it because you thought it previously. It is attempting to make something solid that is intrinsically vaporous. Q.: It is looking for security in some other form. N.: What kind of security can one find in repeating thoughts or in outer, changing, transient form? Q.: It is foolish. N.: (silence) ----------- Not two, Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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